Evangelist Christian Chukwuka is a man with a nice heart.
Christian Okezie Chukwuka is the founder/project coordinator of Abounding Grace Foundation. He is a Swedish citizen of Nigerian origin. He grew up in a poor family of seven (7) in Aba, South Eastern Nigeria. Due to the impoverished condition of his parents, the teenage Christian Chukwuka was sent out for slavery. His experience as a slave in Cameroon (Central Africa) and Maiduguri (Northern Nigeria) was so unbearable that he became emotionally battered and finally had to seek for greener pasture beyond the shores of Africa.
Christian's journey to Europe wasn't as rosy as he thought and with the influence of bad company he got involved in drug trafficking which eventually landed him in a Swedish prison for eight years. While in prison, Christian Chukwuka experienced a paradigm shift that made him understand and appreciate the essence of life. Upon his release, from the prison in 2005, the now transformed Christian Chukwuka, relocated to London to avoid being influenced by his old circle of friends and being stigmatized. Re-integration into the society wasn’t a pleasant process for Christian, but in the midst of the confusion and hopelessness, he found his mentor Rev Dr. David Ogbueli the President of Golden Heart Foundation and Senior Pastor of Dominion City worldwide who has been nurturing and guiding him in his pursuit of purpose. While in prison, a new Christian Chukwuka emerged with a strong passion to sensitize the prisoners, ex-convicts and youths on the consequence of crime.
Christian's journey to Europe wasn't as rosy as he thought and with the influence of bad company he got involved in drug trafficking which eventually landed him in a Swedish prison for eight years. While in prison, Christian Chukwuka experienced a paradigm shift that made him understand and appreciate the essence of life. Upon his release, from the prison in 2005, the now transformed Christian Chukwuka, relocated to London to avoid being influenced by his old circle of friends and being stigmatized. Re-integration into the society wasn’t a pleasant process for Christian, but in the midst of the confusion and hopelessness, he found his mentor Rev Dr. David Ogbueli the President of Golden Heart Foundation and Senior Pastor of Dominion City worldwide who has been nurturing and guiding him in his pursuit of purpose. While in prison, a new Christian Chukwuka emerged with a strong passion to sensitize the prisoners, ex-convicts and youths on the consequence of crime.
This gave birth to his vision of helping to transform youths, prisoners, ex-convicts and the prison system, through seminars, outreaches and symposium, and mentorship program. Christian Okezie Chukwuka, now an Evangelist is an agent of social transformation and has been taking his message of reformation, hope, love and forgiveness to inmates and ex-convicts in over 200 prisons across Europe and Africa for the past six years. He is married with seven adorable children. Under the leadership of Evang. Christian Chukwuka, AGF has transformed over 70,000 lives across Africa: visited 217 out of 241 prisons in Nigeria, 34 out of 42 prisons in Ghana and Pretoria prison in South Africa. Abounding Grace Foundation is a non-governmental, non-profit organization, with the aim of rehabilitating prisoners and ex-convicts globally. AGF is registered in the United Kingdom (UK), Ghana and Nigeria. Since inception in 2013, AGF has been successfully carrying out the project RRR: Rehabilitation, Reformation, and Re-Integration of prisoners and ex-convicts into the society. Also, AGF runs a Project CCC: Crack, Cultism, and Crime which is a youth development initiative designed to keep the youths out of crime and create a safer society for all. With the help of sponsors, partners, and donors, AGF has successfully embarked on structural remodeling projects in over seventy (70) prisons across Nigeria to create a habitable environment for prison inmates doing their time and those awaiting trial.
AGF has directly impacted the lives of over Ten Thousand inmates in prisons across Europe and Africa through our monthly outreach program where they benefit from free medical services, counseling, Legal aid, Scholarship, skill acquisition training, mentorship, food, and beverages supply. Also financial empowerment for business start-ups for released prisoners.
Abounding Grace Foundation helps to facilitate the freedom of reformed inmates, upon the completion of the internal mentorship program (within the prison) through the payment of their fines. Currently, over 1000 inmates have regained their freedom through this program including those on “Death Row”.
One of the challenges of reintegration of ex-convicts into society is shelter. Some of them don't have where to sleep or who to go to for help because of this, some fall back to back to crime.
To address this challenge, AGF designed a temporary housing scheme tagged “Safe House" where ex-convicts are accommodated for free over a period of time to enable them to adapt into the new environment without the stress of paying for accommodation as they go through the re-integration process.
Abounding Grace Foundation helps to facilitate the freedom of reformed inmates, upon the completion of the internal mentorship program (within the prison) through the payment of their fines. Currently, over 1000 inmates have regained their freedom through this program including those on “Death Row”.
One of the challenges of reintegration of ex-convicts into society is shelter. Some of them don't have where to sleep or who to go to for help because of this, some fall back to back to crime.
To address this challenge, AGF designed a temporary housing scheme tagged “Safe House" where ex-convicts are accommodated for free over a period of time to enable them to adapt into the new environment without the stress of paying for accommodation as they go through the re-integration process.
